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FOR 25 YEARS THE OUTSTANDING NEGRO WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS
VOLUME 27—-NUMBER 32
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, AUG. 13th, 1949
PRICE TEN OEHTS
“White Church Is Dead'’
Howard Prexy Assails
White Church In Speech
,BAL£IQH—Dr. Mordecal W. Johnson, outspoken president
of Howard University, sererely. criticized the Southern “white
church” M he said in an address to the All-Baptist Assembly in
convention here last week that the ‘ ‘ intolerance and bi^try in the
Southern states eiist today because fhe church has become'a
prostitute and has sold her soul to possess a beautiful body.
Dr. Johnson spoke Thursday night at one of the most im
portant meetings of th« usembly.
Other prominent speakers heard during the five day Assera-
ly were Mrs. Mary McLeod Be-
thune, nationally known educa
tor; Gov. of North Carolina,
Kerr Scott, and Dr. P. A. Bis
hop, president of the General
State Baptist Assembly.
Gov. Scott told the Assembly
Monday night that the state
needs a rebirth of rural church
activity with the emphasis on
the spiritual vale of training.
He was preceeded by Dr. Bis
hop, who delivered the key
note adddress. He cited the
need for a more determined
ly active and militant church.
Mrs. Bethune, founder of the
Bethiuie-Cookm^n College and
president of the National Coun
cil of Negro Women, 'stressed
the nerd for “joining hand«i and
hearts for the making of a bet
ter world.” She received a
a round of ear-splitting applau.se
at the remark: “We are going
to send our soiled clothes to our
own laundry. We are not going
to send them to France, Ger
many or RUs.sia.
Dr. Johnson, one of the na
tion’s more brilliant . and
forceful speakers, asserted his
belief that the^Negro has not
become embittered as a result
of his difficult lot through
the years because of the ex
ample set by Christ’s life. He
declared that this same reli
gious attitude which kept the
Negro from becoming embit
tered is necessary for salva
tion of the world today.
The Howard University pres-
dent levelled harsh criticism at
tthe segregated church, today’s
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Bids On NCC
Library Fall
Under Estimate
Construction bids on the new
James E. Shepard Memorial
Library‘S— one of three pro
posed buildings at North Car
olina College for which plans
liave been drawn — have to
tted $550,438.32 or nearly
$250,000 under the $800,000
appropriated for the struc-
^ture by the state.
Bids on two other structures,
faculty apartments and a
dassroom building will be re
ceived at the college on Aug.
25.
Overall dimensions of- the
library building are 204 feet
by 96 feet. The structure will
contain a total of 674,000 cdbic
feet, and will provide space
for 200,000 volumes.
According to the plans
drawn by Architect George
.-Watt* Carr, the floor plan
calls for a ^reserve, reading
room, ‘ an audioyisual aid
room, storage rooms, and is
sue desk and stack rooms on
the first floor. The second
floor will contain general and
reference i^ad|ng room, a
treasure room, offices for the
iK«rarian and secetary, a staff
room, two seminars, the card
catalogue room, and additional
stack rooms.
The third floor will house the"*'
periodicals and browsing
^ooms, a graduate seminar,
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'Mist Retdsville'
m
Miss Minnie Lee Gravely was
recently crowned “Miss Reids-
ville” when she won a contest
sponsored by the Union Ush
er Board of Reidsville. The
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. Gravely, she won oxer
her competitors by selling the
largest number of votes. —
CLARKE Photo.
DR. MORDECAI JOHNSON, president of Howard Univer
sity, is shown delivering an address to the All-Baptist Assembly
which convened in ]^leigh last week. Dr. Johnson severely critic
ized the “white church” in his speech. Other noted Assembly;
speakers included Dr. Bethune, Gov. Scott and pi** P* A. Bishop.
Brown Resigns From
NCC's Coacliing Staff
DURHAM
The announcement here last
week that Floyd Brown, 1948
line coach of the North Caro-
lina College Eagles football
sq«ad, had resigned and that
he will be employed as line
coaeh at West Virginia State
College, brought consternation
among the North Carolina
College alumni* hgre this week
as what first was believed to
be a rumor proved to be an
actual f^t.
No sooner had local alumni
ofSclals begun to recover from
the devastating blow of Mr.
Brown’s resignation than it
WM rumored that L. T. Walk-
er, 1947 line coach who was
away last season doiQg fur
ther study, would probably
not return to the North Caro-
. lina Collie campus, and if he
' uW had definitely made it
clear to President Alfonso
Elder that he did not want to
coach football.
Efforta of the CAROLINA
TIMES to get behind llle
shake-up now g6ing on in the
football coaching staff of the
Physical Education Depart
ment at North Carolina-Col
lege revealed that there has
been a continuous turmoil in
the football coaching staff
with head football coach, Her-
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FLOYD BROWN, former
North Carolina College line
coach, as he appeared when a
stitr on the North Carolina
College basketball team.
man Riddick, being the center
around which all the storm is
raging.
E»*^“Pops” Turner, it was
learned, was raked over the
coals the latter part of last
season with accusations by
Riddick that he was not loyal
to him and the team and that
his conduct was unbecoming
to a coach on one or more
trips with last year's eleven.
It is reported that Riddick
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Rankin Cries
'Red' At Passage
Of Anti^PollTax
WASHINGTON
ilts getting to be pretty hard
for any legislation to get
through the congressional mill
in this city without attach such
| legislation to ^mething pink or
red. The latest blast is the one
leveled at the passing of the
Anti-Poll Tax bill by Rep. Ran
kin (D., Miss.)
Of course no one is complete
ly disillusioned about any fur
ther trouble the bill will en
counter when it reaches the fi
nal place of scanning. That is
when the foes of any such leg
islation gather together for the
famous filibuster. Theise foes
said the bill is a direct violation
of states’ rights, which is the
familiar line. But they argue
that the states alone have the
power to determine the quali
fications of their voters.
This is the fifth time the
House passed an Anti-Poll Tax
Bill, and the majority was 273
to 116. The bill would outlaw
a tax required for voting in Vir
ginia, Arkansas, Texas, Miss
issippi, Alabama, Tennessee and
South Carolina.
Negro Life Mural
To Be Unveiled
In Los Angeles
. NEW YORIl
A historical mural, the work
of a New York University
professor, will be unveiled this
month at the opening of the
Golden State Mutual Life In
surance Company’s new build
ing in Los Angeles, California.
Visiting Associate Professor
Hale Woodruff was commis
sioned last year, along w’ith
Charles Alston, to depict the
history of the Negro in Calif
ornia.
Professor Woodruff has been
a member of the Art Educa
tion Department at the Uni
versity’s School of Education
since 1946. Before joining the
faculty here, he had been
professor and director of art
at Atlanta University for
fifteen years. In 1926 he re
ceived the Harmon Award for
Creative Achievement.
Professor Woodruff chose
the period from the mid-Nincr
teenth Century to the present,
while Mr. Alston took the earl
ier period, 1527 through 1840.
Among the scenes in the
Woodruff panel one of Ne
gro cavalry and infantry un
its guarding the workmen
building tlije transeontiuental
rairoads from India and band-
Jt attacks. Another 'Of the
twelv e scenes shows Mar>*
EUen Pleas^t, better known
as “Mammy” Pleasant, who
was active in the fight for
civil rights. She contributed
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Moron Will Be
Inaugurated In
Campus Rites
HAMPTON, VA.
Three days of ceremonies or
ganized around the general
theme of “The College, The Ne
gro, and Industry,” will mark
the inaguration of Alonzo G.
Moron, B. Ph., M. A., LL. B.,
the eighth president of Hamp
ton Institute, here on October
27-29^.
Leaders in the fields of edu
cation, government, and in
dustry will join officials of the
81 year-old institution of the
Virginia Lower Peninsula,
founded in 1868 by General
Samui^l Chapman Armstrong
and an aecredlttfd Class A
college since 1932-33, in de
veloping the main theme
through four sessions begin
ning Thursday night, Oct. 27.
Among the speakers definite
ly scheduled to take part in the
program are Thomas A. Mor-
giiu, Director and Chairman of
tlic Board of the Sperry Cor
poration; Channing H. Tobias,
Director of the Phelps-Stokes
Foundation and Chairman of
tiie Hampton Board of Trustees;
F. D. Patterson, President ^of
Tuskegee Institute and a Hamp
ton trustee; George M. Johnson,
Dean of the Law School of How
ard, Universil^y; Lestef B.
Granger, Executive Director of
the National Urban League and
Hampton trustee; Charles Hous
ton, prominent Wa.shington, D.
C. attorney; and Dr. Stephen J.
Wright, . Dean of Faculty of
Hampton Institute.
Names of other speakers, rep
resentative of labor, govern
ment, industry or education,
will be announced in the near
future. —
Mr. iforon, a, Virgin Jslander,
who received both academy and
trade diplomas at Hampton
became the first alumnus of the
school to be named head execu
tive ■ when the Board of Trus-'
tees named him acting president
in October, 1948; and he was
soon elevated to the full presi
dency' — in April, 1949. A
graduate of Brown University
with a Bachelor of Philosophy
Degree, Mr. Moron-holds the M.
S. degree from the University of
Pittsburgh and last year won
his LL. B. from Harvard Law
School.
As Public Welfare Com-
imissioner of the Virgin Is
lands, 1933-36, Mr. Moron
was responsible for develop
ing a public welfare program
in a community 75 per cent
of whose population had been
described, as’ ^‘either unem
ployed.” He also has been
housing manager for‘the fed
erally operated Univeraity
Homes project in Atlanta,
Georgia, 1936-40^ and later
was advisor for the building
of six morr Atlanta housing
projects anirSuinager of a sec
ond such project.
He joined the Hampton staff
as General Business RIanager in
1947, becoming Chairman of the
Interim Administrative Com
mittee in February, 1948, after
the resignation of Balph P.
Bridgnmn, as president.
Gets Pi^st
Durham Number Suckers
Now In Better Position
To Meet Honest Debts
The death-like nilent'e tliat has prevailed among Durham and
otlier North Carolina cities about number rack. tt ;rs continued un-
abated this week as writers and bankers remained uiidt-rgrjiind
to escape the toils of the law. Just how long police- \^ill be able
to keep the notorious bunch from continuing its nefarit^us practic;
of robbing peaiiut-headed “suckers” of their rent, iuHuranec an«l
even grocery money, could not be determined.
In the meantime the CAROLINA TIMES learned from
its informers in Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Charlotte and
other cities that real estate and insurance agents report a
slight impi^vement among unknown nuniber victims to
meet their payments. Even the groceryman is sharing in
the number racket lull with a decided increase in the amount
' of groceries purchased by the element preyed upon most by
number racketeers.
The lull in North Carolina cities is believed to be the result j
of the police crackdown on the big number barctis in northern'
cities where millions of dollars are tilso filched out of the pockets
of poor suckers, in the one chance out of a thousand to win, in |
the course of a year. , ' {
The closing down of the big northern city operators came
when police discoveredythat the merciless operators were not i
even playing fair with the one out of a thousand chances to !
win, but instead were having the figures on the bufter and :
egg market and other number sources manipulated so that,
poor suckers, who continue to make the big operators rich by
paying out their perfectly good money, didn’t even have the j
one chance out of a thousand to win.
When the number operators will emerge from their under
ground hiding is not defiiritely known, but police say it is certain
that they do not intend quitting the nefarious practice as long as
the streets and communities continue to produce so many fools
that are willing to fatten the operators, pocketbooks with ready
cash. • ,
NBC BANS USE OF TERM
'DARKY' IN ITS BROADCASTS
AND TELEVISION SHOWS
NEW YOmi
The National Broadcasting
Company informed the Na
tional Negro Press Association
la.st Tuesday that it has ban
ned the use of the word
darky” over radio and tele
vision programs o^tt its liet-
work.
The announcement came as
the direct result of a fight «-
gainst the use of the word on
NBC programs by members
papers of the NNPA, initiat
ed and spearheaded by Carl
Murphy, president of the
AERO - AMERICAN News-
apec:; and treasurer of the
NNPA Committee of Man
agement.
Sidney Eige.s, vice president
of NBC, said in the announce
ment that hia network places
“great value in the large part
.of the Negro population which
listens regularly to NBC pro
gram” and that the program
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Mrs. Mary W, Gant, wife of
Rev. G. C. Gant who is pastor
of the Sanford Circuit A. M.
•E. Churches, has been ap
pointed supervisor of the Ox
ford City Schools. Mrs. Gant
is the former Miss Wimberley
of Rocky Mount.
Not'l. Primitive
Baptists Meet
In'Philly
BIRMIXOHAM
Rev. C. T. Tharst. spoke^^
man for the Primitive Bap
tist National Convention, an-
nonnced that their National
Convention will be li.>ld in
Philadelphia, Pa., Ansnist 2-1-
28. 1949.
The Pilgrim Rest P. B. As
sociation President, William
S;att, sflijrs this will be the
g* eat convention in -the his-
to*y of that church group.
Pja’^j will be adopted to do
n*^* for education and mis-
sioii ^ihroughout the nation.
• The City of Brotherly Love
will be treated to a ilam-
moth parade representing
groups from all ovt'r the na
tion. Indications are that re
ports will show ffreat pm-
gress in the Primitive Baptist
Ohnreh.'
Charles Successfully
Defends NBA Crown
YANKEE, STADIUM, NEW
YORK —. Ezzard Charles, hun
gry for the acclaim of New
York’s fight fans, gave a savage
exhibition Wednesday night,
August 10 as he cut Gus Les-
nevich to shreds and forced the
34-year-old gaffer to surrender
at. the end of seven rounds.
The impresfflve victory by
the sharpshooting Cincinnati
Negro vastly bolsterd his
claim to the world heavy-
weighnj championship, which
he already held in the forty-
seven states controlled by the
National Boxing Association.
The one-sided battle, fought
before some 15,000 sweltering
onlookers, 'ended when Les-
nevich’s manager, Joe VeUa,
called Referee Ruby Goldstein
over to Gus‘ corner at the end
of the seventh and told him the
former lighthea\’jH^'eight cham
pion had enough.
Under New York rules, the
fight was scored as ending
in the seventh round.
Both of Gus’ eyes were puff
ed until he was peering through
mere slits, and he was bleeding
profu.sely from a deep cut under
- his left ey^. He had taken a
terrible beating in the 7th and
had staggerecf'V> stool like a
very tired old man.
Charles, who won the NBA
title by beating Jersey Joe
Walcott at Chicago just seven
weeks ago, carried every round
except one by wide margins.
Gus, making what proved a
last, despairing stand, shook
Charles with a couple of solid
rights in the sixth.
. But that was the only really
threatening gesture by the pop
ular veteran from CHffside
Park, N. J. Ezzard the Gizzard
emplo3ed his superior height
and reach to step around Gus
and cut him dowri at his leisure.
Leaievieh’s arms were just too
short to clip his elusive rival.
Flushed with confidence
when it was over, Charles
clArioned that he would face
any contender chosen by
Chairman Eddie Eagan of the
New York Commission within
six weeks or two months. He
added what already had been
obvious to the ringsiders —
that Lesnerich never serious-
Iv . ; him up.
said Tufsduy that if
tlu- iuuer Wfdufsilaiv- night
wei> iiiatehed with tiio victor in
tht’ '-again, off airaiii en^age-
mon betweeu Savohl ami
Brik‘1. Wootlcoek in Loiuiou the
New York Cemimission woiild
recogiaizt' it' was for the worM
title. New York is the ouJy Sta.1^
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